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LANTERN.

No. 402,794. Patented May 7, 1889.

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FFICE FERNANDO BARBIG, OF NEXV YORK, N. Y.

LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,794, dated May '7, 1889.

Application filed February 20, 1888. Serial No. 264,614, (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERNANDO BARBIG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lanterns for Brewers Vats and Barrels, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal side elevation. Fig. 2'represents a rear end elevation showing the air-inlet. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal section. Fig. 4 represents a front view of the candle-holder with a reflector removed from the interior of the lamp. Fig. 5 represents a cross-section. Fig. 6 represents a cask, showing the lantern in use.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The invention has for its object to provide an effective lamp for reflecting light into casks, barrels, and tuns used by brewers for storage and other purposes, for the purpose of enabling them to varnish the interior of such vessels without danger or risk of life.

The object of varnishing casks is to cover the interior to prevent the accumulation of impurities 011 the wood fibers that stand out from the face of the staves. This mode has been used for some time, and is as follows: The man-hole of the cask being removed and the barrel being thoroughly washed out, the workman enters the cask through the manhole for the purpose of varnishing the interior. Numerous kinds of light reflectors and lamps have been used to reflect light into the casks to enable the workman to operate. In spreading the varnish over the surface of the cask the alcoholic gases are liberated to a great degree, and the Workman is constantly in danger of suffocation or of death by explosion of the gases should they come in contact with the heat of the flame or the flame of the lamp. A great number of deaths have recently occurred by reason of the explosion of the gases that came in contact with the reflector used. The reflectors heretofore used had to be inserted into the cask, thus throwing the heat as Well as light generated by the light medium into the cask, and resulting fatally, as above stated.

The apparatus consists of metal frame-work A, having the rear and lower part of sheet metal, the upper and front part being a metal framework, A, arranged to receive panes of glass, C, through which the light is reflected. The interior on the sides and bottom forward of the light is lined with corrugated reflector-glass, (Z d, the front plate, cl, being upwardly inclined, for obvious reasonsviz., to reflect the rays of light to the upper part of the cask and to avoid any chance of candlemeltings flowing into the cask. The front glass, 0, is preferably hinged, to facilitate the cleaning of the apparatus, but is securely fastened by suitable means.

B is the back, hinged to the frame-work by hinge b and is provided with a slide, 19 by means of which the inlet of air to the interior of the lamp is regulated.

In Fig. 4, E represents an ordinary re flectordisk affixed to stand 8, which is also provided with candle-holders e e, which are set in the bottom of the reflector, and held by clasps. (Not shown.)

F is a reflector having in its center an opening, g, through which the heat of the candle is carried into the outlet-pipe A The hinged back 13 is securely fastened by means of the hooks b.

In use the lamp or reflector is setinto the man-hole of the cask or tun as far as theline of the outlet-pipe, as shown in Fig. 6, and thus the light is thrown into the cask, while the heat generated by the candles is carried off through the pipe A as shown by the arrows in Figs. 3 and 6. The air necessary for" combustion is regulated by the slide b.

It is obvious that reflecting-lanterns constructed on this principle can be used for various purposes. I do not intend to limit their use to brewers casks and tuns.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A lantern for brewers vats or barrels, consisting of a framework having glass front and upper portion, a suitable air-inlet in its rear and an airoutlet from its rear upper portion, whereby the main portion of the said reflector may be inserted through an opening in said vat or barrel, substantially as described.

2. A lantern for brewers vats or barrels, consisting of a frame-work having glass front and upper portion, suit-able air inlet and outlot, and corrugated glass lining in its bottom, substantially as described.

A lantern for brewers vats, consisting of a frame-Work having glass front and upper portion, suitable air inlet and outlet, corrugated reflectors in its bottom, the forward portion of which is upwardly inclined, a lightholder, and reflectors behind said li g11t-holder, substantially as described.

Signed at New York, in the county of New 10 York and State of New York, this 1st day of February, A D. 1888.

FERNANDO IBARBIG.

Vitn esses:

JOHN P. BETZEMAN, J12, RICHARD LIPS. 

